The Republican journal., 1887-01-13
Generalities.

French spoliation claims may be filed until
Jan. 90.
They are enforcing the Sunday law in New
Orleans.
Madagascar has secured loan of $4,000, 900
in Paris.
The losses by fire In New York city In 1896
were $4,000, ,469.
The new color of scarlet Is already voted un-
popular in New York.
Frank Stockton wants to buy a country house
near Washington.
The new river and harbor bill appropriate
about ten millions.
Michael Davitt was married to Miss Marie
lore in Oakland, CAL, Thursday.
The semi-annual dividends payable In .Janu-
airy in Boston amount to $40, ,5S5, ,105.
James Ten Eyck, the oarsman. says America
leads the world in boats and scuers.
| Spurious silver coin to the amount of s15, 900
is believed to be in circulation in Boston.
The cost of new buildings. alterations, etc..
III Boston the past year was S12, ,046 ,OO3.
One of the leaders of the Bay View, Milwau-
kee. riots of last spring. has been found guilty.
A new steel rail MILL costing 81 ,OOO. 900, is to
be erected at Bradford, Pa. by Carnegie Broth
| ers.
A paper called the Cementarian is issued
weekly from Buffalo to advocate burial in
cement.
Thomas Stevens, the bicycli>t has completed
his three years journey around the world on
his wheel.
The holiday trade in New York was greater
than ever before known, and is estimated at
five millions.
In the United States treasury are263 millions
in gold 1872 millions in silver and total cash of
about $50 millions.
There are thrty-seven persons and corpora
tions in Boston who are taxed on one million
of dollars or more.
A defalcation involving three or four thousand
dollars. is reported in r. II. Whites dry goods
| establishment. Boston.
Twenty seven thousand people in the drought
stricken districts of Texas are in immediate
| need of food and clothing.
| The fire loss in the United States for 1856 is
estimated at $116.G00O00. This is largely In
excess of any previous figures.
The total output of the Colorado gold, silver
and copper mines was $26, 794. .6SS, an increase
of more than two millions over 1885.
The Suez canal will be ready in February for
| night traffic through its entire length. Vessels
are to be provided with electric lights.
Burchard A. Hayes, son of EXPIRES. Hayes,
was married to Miss Mary Sherman at Norwak,
o.. Dec. 3Oth. They started that night on a
trip East
Forty-seven thousand dollars out of the $50
600 necessary to erect a new building for the
NDt .JSf SaIr ryYNa,.
subscribed.
According to arguments of counsel for the
Andovcr professors. the heterodoXy of which
they are accused largely permeates New Eng
land orthodoxy.
Gen. B. F. Kelley, formerly of West Virgin
Ia, whose pension Congress has voted to ill-
crease to 500 month. Is a native of New
Hampton, y. II.
About 1000 has been recovered of the
money stolen several weeks ago from the Adams
Express Company at the West by the ''Jim
Cummings" gang.
A farmer of Santa Barbara, CAL, derives an
income of S30.0O0 from his olive grove of 5000
trees. which yield 10000 bottles of oil, worth 81
per bottle, annually.
The Louisville COurer-Journal Dem.) de-
clares that there has never been such insolence
in Office as marks the present situation in the
departments at Washington.
The Waverly Hotel at Fredericton, n. b.,
burned at 3 O'Clock A. NJ. December Both, the
mercury being 20 below zero. The guests cs-
capped in their night clothes.
Ex-Governor William Smith of Virginia
(''ENtra Billy,') although nearly 80 years old,
is still ambitious. and wants to succeed Mr..
Riddleberger as United States Senator,
New lOrk yachtmen expect that the chal-
lenge of Mr.. II. T. Bush. owner of the Coronet,
for race with any American keel schooner
yacht from Sandy Hook to Queenstown, will
be accepted by the owners of the Dauntless of
New York and of the Fortuna and Gitana of
Boston.
Russia has concluded arrangements for OBJ
tanning from the IIerZants of Paris a loan of
,o.000.OW francs. The money is to be eXpend-
ed in constructing canal from the eastern ex-
tremity of the Gulf of Perekop, in the Black
Sea, across the neck of land adjoining the
Crimea to the mainland to the Sea of Azov, in
order to afford direct water route from the
River Don to the Black Sea.
Gen. Logan once lost good chance of be-
coming millionaire. He and John l.. Routt,
afterward Governor of Colorado. were joint
owners of Leadville mine, but Logan became
dsgusted with it and sold his share to Routt for
promissory note of $500. Routt afterward
TOOK S2.OO0.0OO out OF the mine, now known as
the famous Morning STAR and subsequently
sold out to New Workers for 81, 100000.
James II. keene and other spectators in
1850 formed a lard pool. They quarreled
among themselves and charged that their brok-
ers had dcfraudcd them. The case came before
Judge Daniels of the New York Supreme Court
and he not only refused to order the brokers to
dl>gorge but read Mr.. keene very severe les
son in moral ethics, winding up by declaring
that his transactions were little better than act
ual robbery.
The Alabama Conference of the NJ. E. Church
South, in session at Montgomery, has declared
unanimously in favor of submitting to the peo-
pie constitutional amendment prohibiting the
The growth Of the prohibition sentiment in Al
ALBANIA has been most marked within the past
three years, and the ministers of the various
religious denominations are taking the lead in
the fight against license to sell liquor.